Pilot’s Guide
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Electrophonic Limited Edition available @ www.line6.com |
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1 Plug In Here
Channel Memories
Four programmable channels come pre-loaded with great factory presets. Press one of these buttons to hear them. To store your own “snapshot” of all knob positions (except Master Volume), press and hold one of these four buttons for two seconds. The LED changes to green and then back to red when the save is complete. To copy from one channel to another, press the button for the channel you want to copy from; now press and hold the button of the new channel location until the LED changes to green and back to red. For more memories get an FBV Shortboard.
Foot Control & Headphone/Line Out
9 Plug in an FBV2 foot switch to scroll through the 4 channels or connect a Line 6 FBV Shortboard controller for channel switching, effects on/off control, wah/volume pedals, access to 32 more channel memories, a chromatic tuner, and tap tempo for delays. Or use an FBV4 for channel switching and tap only. Listen in stereo with headphones, or use this as a direct out for recording! (If you need a stereo out, use a 1/4” TRS stereo-to-dual mono Y-adaptor cable).
8 TAP: Tap on the TAP button a few times to set the delay time. Also Tap button extra functions.
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DRIVE |
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Amp Models |
Channel Volume |
2 Spin this knob to select one of twelve Amp |
4 This control helps you balance the |
Models. All the other Spider II controls will |
volumes of different amp-and-effect |
automatically be set to sound great with that |
setups that you store in your Spider II’s |
Amp Model, so you can just play! |
channels. See 10 for the low-down on |
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Tone Controls
3 Drive is like the volume or gain knob on other amps; controls how much “dirt” you get in your sound. Bass, Mid, and Treble controls are customized for each Amp Model to give you optimal tonal control.
Welcome The Spider II...
Thank you for inviting Spider II home with you. This amp mines the tonal heritage of the past forty years of guitar amplifier design and matches it up with the kind of digital signal processing magic that will still be ahead of its time ten years from now.
Amp Model Details
Clean
Red LED - Select this Amp Model and adjust the tone controls to get crisp, amazing clean tones, great warm jazz tones, and all the high-end shimmer you’ll need with a generous amount of bottom end to boot. Then dial up a little chorus and delay to get the ultimate clean sound!
Green LED - We developed this Amp Model to emulate those late 60’s and early 70’s clean tones. It started off as an Amp Model based on a 1973 Hiwatt custom 100. We extended the tone control range and tightened up the low end. Hit an open A chord and let that big sweet tone ring!
Twang
Red LED - This Amp Model draws on our analysis of mid 60’s Fender amps, including the blackface ’65 Twin
Reverb, blackface ’64 Deluxe Reverb and ‘63 brownface Vibroverb. We wanted an Amp Model that has that classic glassy high end tone, with some snap and bite for some serious chick’n pick’n. Things don’t get too crunchy until reaching the top range of the Drive knob.
Green LED - This Amp Model is based on a number of vintage tweed amps. We evaluated a ’53 Fender tweed Deluxe, ’58 Fender tweed Bassman and a ’60 Gibson Explorer to create a swingin’ Rockabilly tone. Add some reverb and a slap echo and Be-bop-alu-la!
Blues
Red LED - What would happen if we based a model on three helpings of ’65 Marshall JTM-45, one scoop of ’58 Fender Bassman, a schmeer of ’63 Fender Vibroverb and a dash of Supro for good measure? The biggest, fattest down home Blues amp ever heard. This Amp Model slides between gritty swamp-infected cleans to syrupy smooth, walloping drive tones. It’s time to get down and dirty!
Green LED - Ready, steady....GO! This Amp Model is based on a fawn Vox AC-30 amplifier with an updated and expanded tone control circuit. We wanted to capture that early British pop rock tone that the Beatles and the Stones are so well known for.
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Spin one of these knobs to get great FX, fast and easy: |
Reverb |
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Knob A picks chorus/flange, phaser or tremolo, with |
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less virtual room. |
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Master Volume |
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Knob B picks delay, tape echo or sweep echo, with a |
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Crunch
Red LED - This sound was crafted during our studies of the '68 Marshall Plexi 50 Watt. This type of Marshall amp was used by a number of early metal bands. Check out albums like British Steel, Number of the Beast and Black Out. Crunch provides a wider range of tone control settings than the original Marshall amp had. This Amp Model will allow you to bump up the mids even at the highest Drive settings.
Green LED - Plexi On Fire! This Amp Model is based on a ‘68 Marshall Plexi 100 watt with a few added extras; The combination of a Variac and the jumpered input channels creates that infamous brown sound that will feel like flames are shooting out the input jack! “Come on Dave… Give me a break!”
Metal
Red LED - This Amp Model is based on the Mesa Dual Rectifier. For Spider II, we made careful enhancements to this classic tone. The resulting Amp Model has a definite modern flavor. This monster truck of tone delivers a tight bottom end that’s big, powerful, tight and fast. Use this Amp Model to get a tight and punchy, high gain Metal sound.
Green LED - This sound was created to be an aggressive high gain Amp Model with a unique Mid control that will sweep though an entire spectrum of tone on one
knob. The Mid knob for this Amp Model changes the character of the distortion. When set to minimum, the distortion exhibits Fuzz pedal characteristics. When the Mid is set to noon, it mimics the creamy modern high gain amp tones. And when the Mid knob is turned up to max, it’s very much reminiscent of that Class A sound. Of course, then there are all the places in-between...
Insane
Red LED - Now, here’s something we know you’ll really like. We combined a sub octave distortion with our Insane Amp Model to create a bone-crushing, brain-piercing, heavily distorted tone! Because there is a sub octave we suggest playing single note lines or simple power chords.
Green LED - Our goal with Insane was to provide you with as much input gain distortion as possible short of complete meltdown. You get an obscene helping of distortion, while still retaining tonal definition and character. As a result, you get way more bottom end and cabinet character than other small amps. Crank up the Drive control and prepare to dominate!
All product names referred to in this manual are trademarks of their respective owners, which are in no way associated or affiliated with Line 6. These trademarks of other manufacturers are used solely to identify the products of those manufacturers whose tones and sounds were studied during Line 6’s sound model development.
Smart Control FX:
Great amp tone is only part of a great guitar sound. Effect processing – whether it’s stomp boxes or rack gear – is also a big part of the story. Your Spider II packs the power of several of these tone shapers in its Smart Control FX section.
The delay knob gives you a trio of delay effect choices: a standard delay, tape echo, and a sweep echo. The modulation effect knob lets you choose between chorus/flange, phaser, and tremolo, and for each of these effects you can choose anything from a subtle hint of processing to total tone-mangling overkill. While turning the knob, Spider II adjusts all the individual aspects of the effect automatically to give you the range of sounds you're looking for, without having to mess with multiple knobs and switches to get your tone. So you can spend your time making music instead.
Tap Button “Extra” Functions
The Tap Tempo button, in addition to setting the speed of your delay effects, also lets you access a few extra Spider II features: a Tuner, Distortion Boost and a built-in Noise Gate (the tuner and the boost are also accessible via the optional FBV Shortboard). When
you hold down the Tap Tempo button, you can use some of Spider II’s knobs to access these extra features.
Tuner Mode
Press and hold the TAP button or TAP footswitch for 3 seconds or more and and you get instant digital tuner. The volume is muted during tuning so you won’t here anything coming out of the amp. Press any button to exit Tuner Mode. If there is no FBV Shortboard connected, the LEDs on the front panel of the Spider II will work as the tuner display.
The Amp Model LEDs correspond to the following strings on the guitar:
Clean = Low E string
Twang = A string
Blues = D string
Crunch = G string
Metal = B string
Insane = High E string
AMP MODELS CHAN A |
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The Channel memory LEDs indicate when the string you are playing is in tune. Channel B and C should both light GREEN when the sting is in tune. If channel A’s LED is lit then the sting is flat. If channel D’s LED is lit then the string is sharp.
Distortion Boost
Press and hold the Tap button as you turn the Drive knob up past twelve o’clock. As you do this, Spider II’s Channel A LED comes on. This gives the kind of extra ‘dirt’ that you’d expect from a Distortion pedal with the distortion control set low and the output control set high. It boosts your guitar signal before it reaches the Amp Model, so that you hit the model harder and get a more distorted sound. Enabling this is the same as kicking on Stomp on the FBV Shortboard.
Noise Gate
Press and hold Tap as you turn the Reverb knob up past twelve o’clock, and you turn on a built-in Noise Gate, which helps to cut down on hiss and noise. When you do this, the Channel D LED comes on to indicate that the Gate is on.
Special Hidden Functions
When you select an Amp Model, Spider II automatically sets its tone controls and effects to match that Amp Model. You can disable the auto-FX selection (but not tone control auto-selection) by powering up Spider II with the Channel D button held. The autoselection is re-enabled next time you power up.
Want to know where your Spider II's controls are set in the programmed channels? Hold – and keep holding
– the Tap button. Now, before you do anything else, turn the Amp Models knob. This activates Spider II's "Compare" mode. Now turn any knob other than Amp Model and Master Volume, and the channel lights will tell you whether you need to turn that knob up (Channel A lights) or down (Channel D lights) to match the stored setting. The Channel B & C lights will be lit at the same time once the knob position matches the stored setting exactly.
You can reset your Spider II’s programmable channels to their factory-programmed states by holding down the Channel A button as you turn on the power. Warning: This will erase ALL custom sounds you might have created. Ask yourself, “Do I really want to do this?” If your answer is yes, then go for it!
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